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Portuguese
Etymology
From malha, or from Old Galician-Portuguese mallado, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin *mac(u)lātus, from Latin macula. Compare Spanish majada.
Pronunciation
Participle
malhado (feminine malhada, masculine plural malhados, feminine plural malhadas)
- past participle of malhar
Adjective
malhado (feminine malhada, masculine plural malhados, feminine plural malhadas)
- mottled (coloured in patches), spotted, speckled, piebald
- threshed (of cereal)
- (Brazil, colloquial) fit, muscular
- Synonym: sarado